Monthly Archives: August 2013

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I don’t really hear anyone talk about Iraq much anymore. I guess the mission has been accomplished, or it just became too inconvenient to talk about since the same news organizations who would tell you about it now were beating the war drums in the first place and maybe they think you will forget about it if they quit talking about it.

On a whim I decided to look into the number of deaths in Iraq in 2013 alone and it’s been a bloody year. In August alone nearly 400 civilians have been killed.

I don’t know how many people were killed during a two week span under Saddam but I’d be very surprised if it ever reached the levels we’ve seen in the last 10 years. The same website estimates roughly 120,000 civilians have been killed since the US invasion in 2003. That’s about the entire population of Fort Collins Colorado, it’s hard to fathom.

Is this what you thought would happen when we invaded? Is this what we were promised? We were lead to believe we were freeing these people from oppression not signing their death warrants. The people who lied us into war are murderers. War criminals. Profiteers and traitors. They should all be held accountable.

Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum says that he will be traveling to Iowa this week and is “open” to run for president in 2016.

During a Sunday panel discussion on NBC about a foreign policy debate within the Republican Party, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said he suspected that Santorum agreed with Gov. Chris Christie (R) and was more of a hawkish interventionist than Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY).